STAR OF BETHLEHEM in Grasa. 



CHAPTER II. 



EXAMPLE FROM HARDY BULBS IN GRASS 

 OF LAWNS OR MEADOWS. 



We will now see what may be done with one type 

 of vegetation — hardy bulbs like Dafi^dils and plants 

 dying down after flowering early in the year, like 

 th? WintgrAconite and the J Blood-roq t (Sanguinaria). 

 How many of us enjoy the beauty which hardy 

 Spring flowers of these orders might give us? How 

 many get beyond the conventionalities of the flower- 

 garden, with its patchings, and taking up, and drying, 

 and playing with our beautiful Spring Bulbs ? Garden 

 adornment with early bulbs is merely in its infancy; 

 at present we merely place a few of the showiest in 

 geometrical lines. The little done leads to such poor 

 results, that many people, alive to the charms of a 

 garden too, scarcely notice Spring-flowering Bulbs 



